2008 Market Review & Forecast

The TIA 2008 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast provides the most reliable and up-to-date information on the telecommunications industry. It will help you anticipate market changes, assist you in adjusting your business models, and give you the confidence to explore new business opportunities and provide your customers with new and innovative products, services and solutions. As you develop your business plan and strategy, reference the most comprehensive report in the industry – the TIA 2008 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast. See historical data back to 2001 and projections through 2011.

Trends, Analyses and Projections

The worldwide telecommunications market is expected to grow at a 9.2 percent compound annual growth rate from 2008 to 2011. How will your company take advantage of this growth, and which segments will fuel this expansion? This report helps you gain insight into trends in major industry segments, including:

• Applications Software
• Broadband Technologies (DSL, cable, satellite, fixed wireless)
• Broadband over Power Lines
• Collaborative Technologies (audioconferencing, web conferencing and video conferencing)
• Converged Data Networks
• Economic, Regulatory and Technology Drivers
• EDGE Technologies/Softswitches
• Formal/Non-formal Call Centers
• International Markets
• Interexchange Market
• IP-equipment and Applications
• LAN/WAN Internetworking
• Landline vs. Wireless Communications Market
• Mobile Communications
• Network Infrastructure Equipment and Services
• Optical Networking
• Professional Services
• Prepaid Telephony, including wireless and Internet
• Virtual Private Networks
• Voice over Internet Protocol
• Voice Recognition Technologies
• Voice/Data Communications for the Enterprise
• Wireless Data Services
• Wireless Internet Access including Wi-Fi and WiMAX
• And more …

KSE Exchage

But it still intrigues me why and how the market in an economy like Pakistan - where the stock market itself is rather small in terms of size as well as participation - works in relation to what is happening in the society at large. The charts, and news, clearly indicate that the stock exchange in Pakistan has not been oblivious to the political and socio-economic upheavals of the last many months. But the direction seems to have been clearly upwards and it is not clear just how much of those events are reflected in the market.

One is used in larger markets (USA, Europe, Japan) to seeing the happenings in society and politics to have deep and immediate impacts on the market fluctuations. Is it the same in Pakistan? Or is it that because so many fewer people are actually invested in stocks that the stock market’s rhythms are less intertwined with local happenings and more with global and international happenings (especially if much of the capital flow is from international investors)? And, if, indeed, the stock market in Pakistan is as much of a barometer and reflection of what is happening in the country, then what is it that the market has been telling us all year, and is telling us now?

I know that many of our readers have far greater expertise in this area. Maybe they can help me and others decipher the meaning of all of this better.

KSE-100 Index Sets New Record: What is the Market Telling Us?

On Tuesday the Karachi Stock Exchange’s (KSE’s) KSE-100 Index - Pakistan’s equivalent to the Dow Jones Index - broke the psychological barrier of 15,000 for the first time. At the time of writing this (on what is Wednesday morning in Pakistan) the Index remains well above that mark.




The rise of the stock market(s) in Pakistan in recent years has been phenomenal. Much of this matches the rise of emerging markets all over the world, but the rise over the last year is particularly phenomenal given just how depressed, depressing, uncertain and unclear the politics of the country has been. My friends who work in the financial sector tell me that money can be made from bad news as much as from good news. I am sure they are right, though I am not sure if I understand all the nuances of how.